Air India resumes operations to Kuwait with a weekly Airbus 310 service. Air India places a formal order on Boeing Company for acquisition of four 747-400 passenger airoplanes following the Government's approval of Air India's proposal to purchase this
aircraft.

16 March 1991

Air India resumes operations to Tehran.

7 March 1991

Flights to Bahrain, Doha and Jeddah resumed.

26 January 1991

Ahmedabad becomes the eighth Indian station in Air India's global air network with the introduction of a weekly Airbus 310 flight AI-102/1019.

17 January 1991

Air India decides to suspend all its flights to the Gulf following the outbreak of hostilities. Families / dependents of all Air India staff in the Gulf moved to safer places.

15 January 1991

Operations to Riyadh, Jeddah, Dhahran and Bahrain temporarily suspended in the wake of the Gulf crisis.

22 March 1991

Air India resumes services to Dhahran.

14 March 1991

One weekly service to Riyadh resumed.

31 January 1991

Operations to Sydney withdrawn as they continue to be uneconomic. The last flight AI-424/431 was operated on the India /Sydney sector on January 31, 1991.

23 January 1991

Air India resumes its operations to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat after a thorough review of the safety conditions.